The federal Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare, may provide activists and government a little-known wedge to advance their obesity agendas through regulated health-care providers  specifically Americas nearly 3,000 non-profit hospitals. One organization, The STOP Obesity Alliance, recently identified this wedge as a way to have such hospitals embrace its core convictions, including one principle which questions the role of personal responsibility as a cause and a solution to obesity.

Community Health Needs Assessments. Section 9007 of the Act requires non-profit hospitals, as a condition of maintaining their tax-exempt status, to conduct Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs). These documents, which must be filed with the IRS, will demonstrate the health needs of the hospitals local communities and explain how hospitals are meeting those needs. One assessment of CHNAs likened them to banks responsibilities under the Community Reinvestment Act, in the sense that the documents might be used as tools by activists to prompt agreements or actions. Its likely the STOP alliance understood this when it made its recommendations.

STOPs Recommendations. The STOP Obesity Alliance strongly encourages nonprofit hospitals to overcome and prevent obesity on the following core principles. On balance, the coalitions principles are laudable (encourage physical activity, encourage best practices, address and reduce stigma). One recommendation  that CHNAs use a sustained loss of five to ten percent of current weight as a barometer to successful weight reduction  may be troublesome for hospitals. If hospitals incorporate such a specific goal into their CHNAs, and their patients dont achieve such consistent weight loss, that could provide STOP and other advocates with the clear data they need to oppose continued non-profit status at the IRS or with a potent stick to prod hospitals to certain actions.

If you don’t want to have to navigate the terrible future of Obamacare, you may want to lose weight and get healthy as you can, because they will deny any of us Conservatives any help for the good of the “children”...

This will blow back on them like all of the other scandals that will drag the Obummer administration to it’s knees.

Everyone who is NOT an elitist will recieve a caloric ration card, much like a debit card, to be presented anywhere u buy food. When that is met for the month, time for some mandatory weight loss. Based upon an adults mandatory 1,800 daily caloric intake, you will be alotted 11,100 calories a month.

A simpler and probably legal solution - modifying food stamps to limit food purchases like WIC. You only get fresh fruit, vegetables, low fat milk, low fat cheese and healthy items. No more junk food or pre-prepared food. Given that 20% of households receive food stamps, and poverty correlates to obesity, this type of change could be made in the name of both health and cost savings.

I’m with you. I’m 6’3” and 274 lbs this morning. I bench press 495, ride a couple hundred miles per week on my bike and eat no carbs or wheat products. Yet, I’m morbidly obese according to the BMI charts. Go figure!?!?!

I read an article last week that indicated that waist / height ratio is a more effective gauge of proper weight than the dumb BMI. It indicated that your waist should be no more than 50% of you height. Makes sense to me, and is quite generous in the proportions - IMO.

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posted on 05/20/2013 3:23:02 PM PDT
by RobertClark
(My shrink just killed himself - he blamed me in his note!)

They voted to be a ward of the state. It’s not very complicated government is paying for your health care, your housing. Their money their rules. Or more accurately our money and our rules. Drop the Chalupa.

Or they can leave their parents basement and Obama’s plantation. And grow up.

>The STOP Obesity Alliance strongly encourages nonprofit hospitals to overcome and prevent obesity on the following core principles. On balance, the coalitions principles are laudable (encourage physical activity, encourage best practices, address and reduce stigma). One recommendation  that CHNAs use a sustained loss of five to ten percent of current weight as a barometer to successful weight reduction<

Let me get this straight. Some bean counters decided, in order to “prevent” obesity, to make losing 10% of an individual’s current weight a demand?? What if the person is 23, 5’2’ and weighs 110????

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